183. King and Emperor
Zhao Yanheng also had a copy of the marriage document that was torn up by Li Yue, Dong Rangcai handed it over, Zhao Yanheng read it carefully, and said with a gentle attitude: "Give it to the princess to keep." ”
Chen Jieqi sat on the pear blossom wood corner chair in his hand, his handsome eyebrows moved, lowered his face slightly, and looked at the yellow ground saffron wool blanket on the floor.
Dong Rang bowed down and took the paperwork and retreated, the room was silent, only Zhao Yanheng and Chen Jieqi were two.
Zhao Yanheng didn't want to beat around the bush with Chen Jieqi, and said: "Chen Jieqi, this name is three feet into the ground, and Xuan Guogong is fine, in case it is someone else, if a loophole is found, one will affect Mrs. Li's reputation, and the other will ...... The truth that was not written in the marriage book can be honest with Mrs. Li in private? Mrs. Qingping is extremely worried, and she doesn't know whether your heart is sincere or not. ”
The last three words were like a hammer smashed into Chen Jieqi's heart, but Chen Jieqi guarded against Zhao Yanheng from cheating him, his eyes turned, revealing an innocent and harmless expression, and said: "What His Highness the Seventh said, I can't understand it." ”
Chen Jieqi is Chen Jieqi now, but Zhao Yanheng obviously regards him as another person, a higher status and more threatening figure. Chen Jieqi is twenty-seven years old this year, he has gone through a lot of bloody storms, and he has already become a character.
"I don't think so. "Li Yue is a very assertive woman, she knows what she doesn't know, how many things she hides in her heart, even Li Fei can't know everything, let alone Zhao Yanheng. Zhao Yanheng said indifferently: "I just thought that Mrs. Li didn't know your true identity, what should I call you?"
Chen Jieqi's face was already solemn.
Zhao Yanheng continued: "I am not an official of Honglu Temple, and I don't understand the words and languages of our country, but even the officials who serve in Honglu Temple now can't find a person who is proficient in the words and languages of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, according to the order of succession to the throne, you are the crown prince of the Ayutthaya Kingdom?
In the small ocean domain, the 'king' is already the largest!
Chen Jieqi's self-righteous disguise was torn apart by Zhao Yanheng, his face faded from that gentle and elegant temperament, and a trace of anger emerged, "What else do you know?"
Zhao Yanheng sat as steady as Mount Tai and said: "Everyone who should know knows that you assisted your brother to hunt down the previous king and the future, killed his father and mother, and killed all his half-brothers at the same time to get the throne of Ayutthaya, your brother handles national affairs, and you have been overseas for many years, plundering people and goods to enrich the national strength." ”
"You don't know it all!" Chen Jieqi's cheeks seemed to be imprinted in the firelight, killing his father and mother, and beheading his hands and feet, in the etiquette of the Han people, they are all heinous crimes, and they are indignant by people and gods. So when he was not completely sure, his true face, the qiē he experienced in his early years, he couldn't confess to Li Yue.
Now it's all right for Zhao Yanheng!
Chen Jieqi got up, clenched his fists and walked a few steps, put his hand on the pear blossom wood corner chair opposite, and snapped, breaking the corner of the back of the chair.
The language of the Ayutthaya Kingdom is different from Chinese, and Chen Jieqi must clear his thoughts and make a good draft before he says: "My mother's surname is Chen, and she is from the Chen royal family of Annan, which is the truth. His father married Annan in Qiangsheng and Annan, married his mother to consolidate his position, and then went to Annam three times, Annam fell for most of it, and the Chen royal family was weakened, so his father abandoned his mother and married the princess of the Manchurian Kingdom. We were sent to the temple to be imprisoned, and a year later, the princess of the Manchurian Kingdom gave birth to a male heir, and she killed us, and my mother and eldest brother died that year, and the corpses were burned to the ground. So, in order to live in peace, for the sake of their dead mother and eldest brother, for the sake of those who once followed our mother, for the sake of our brothers, and of course, for the sake of the throne of Ayuthaya, they must die, kill them all, die cleanly! The territory of the country is less than one-twentieth of the kingdom, the population is not more than one million, the kingdom is already so vast and rich, the first emperor of the kingdom is still conquering Annam, in essence, these things are also done, this is called opening up the territory!"
Zhao Yanheng had no intention of standing on the moral high ground to question Chen Jieqi, both of them were careerists, and they didn't know this kind of iron-blooded wrist that the six relatives did not recognize. Zhao Yanheng just smiled and said, "Show me your true colors, what do you want?"
Chen Jieqi calmed down the emotion that was caught off guard by Zhao Yanheng a little, and sat back in his original position, the ruthlessness just now disappeared invisibly, and he said with tenderness on his face: "Believe it or not, at first I just wanted to get Li Yue." ”
Initially, Chen Jieqi and Li Yue met because of the exchange of huàn silver tickets, Chen Jieqi thought that Li Yue was the local head, so he checked it out, there was no such person in the local area, although Li Yue was rich but could not find out the clue, Chen Jieqi also regretted such a mysterious woman, the vast sea of people could not meet again, and later Li Yue and the people of the Qianguo Mansion were together, and even had a close relationship with the general Guo Kun, and assisted him to divide and disintegrate the thirty-six villages.
Guo Kun's wife died early, there was no continuation, everyone knows this kind of family matter, at that time, Li Yue was dressed in men's clothes, sometimes in military clothes, and it was difficult to hide her mature and charming appearance, and the men in the cottage had a lot of broken mouths, saying that Li Yue was not Guo Kun's concubine with the army, or she was a good friend outside, Li Yue was obviously a woman, and she heard a lot of such words, and Chen Jieqi also thought so. Full of ** scenes, the men all got under the women's tube skirts, he thought that the heroic Li Yue had only been a man, at that time, he also mistakenly thought that Li Yue was the general's woman, he still couldn't stop the blood surging, that kind of tight heartstrings and rushing heat wave was something that Chen Jieqi had never had in the past twenty-six years.
Later, when he came into contact with Li Yue again, he knew that he had misunderstood. How chaotic Guo Kun's private life is, how noble Li Yue's heart is, Guo Kun can't get such a good concubine, such a good look, Guo Kun is not worthy of her. He used a lot of connections, and sent his subordinates to Kunming with a lot of money to investigate, only to know that Li Yue was Guo Kun's aunt, although it was the former aunt, the Han people attached the most importance to etiquette and religion, and there was once such a relationship between the elders and the younger generations, and it was no longer possible between them.
At the same time, Chen Jieqi never considered that Li Yue had a daughter who was about to become the seventh princess of the dynasty.
Chen Jieqi couldn't face Zhao Yanheng's question directly, he had to show his heart first, and said: "Believe it or not, even if Li Yue doesn't have such a complicated and prominent identity, she is just a spice merchant who wanders in southern Xinjiang? or the daughter of a local Tusi? Is she a Han, a servant, or Luo Luo? Identity is no longer important to her, what I want to get is just her." ”
Zhao Yanheng is a son-in-law, it is enough for him not to object, and it is awkward to care about the feelings of his mother-in-law, so Chen Jieqi defended himself, Zhao Yanheng heard it, and said calmly: "Mrs. Li's father, Li Tai, ran Liangguang for ten years before entering the cabinet, and Shoufu did it for another five years; Mrs. Li's father-in-law, Lao Xuanguogong, most of his martial arts were established in southern Xinjiang; besides, Mrs. Li and the three generations of the Qianguo Mansion have good friends and have a high seniority; and her daughter is my favorite princess. With these four helps, a five-grade Yiwei lieutenant is really not enough to worry about. ”
Chen Jieqi has become a son-in-law, whether the original Yiwei lieutenant can be retained, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War have to discuss, and it is likely that this background will also be erased. However, compared with the actual benefits brought by Captain Yiwei and Li Yue, Chen Jieqi did not suffer at all. Zhu Qin's scolded little white face was not wrong, if Chen Jieqi still hid this and that in front of Li Yue, it would be Li Yue who suffered.
However, emotional matters can never be taken care of clearly, and Zhao Yanheng and Chen Jieqi talked alone at will.
Chen Jieqi and his second brother have been in exile for many years, and they have been resurrected several times, and everyone's cynicism is not enough. Zhao Yanheng made it clear that he was talking about interests with him, Chen Jieqi turned the delicate blue and white porcelain tea cup in his hand, gently put it back on the table and said: "His Royal Highness is just a prince, the word king, in my and other ocean-going feudal countries, there is an emperor above the king." I learned Chinese characters very well, and the emperor wore a crown of twelve crowns on his head, and he flattened all the kings. My Mr. Sinology once said that the kingdom of heaven is ruled by the emperor and the scholars, so the princes of the clan and the princes of various places are excluded from the power of the central government, and the king can become the emperor, but he is feared by the emperor. The prince is both excluded and feared, if he is at ease to be a rich idler, it will be okay, if he wants to show his ambitions, which prince does not want to become an emperor?"
Zhao Yanheng was told by Chen Jieqi to break through the embarrassment of the prince, there was no anger on his face, he just smiled: "Who is your Mr. Sinology? ”
Chen Jieqi sneered at each other with words, and said: "The dragon is trapped in the shallows, and it is not as good as an insect; the dragon soars in the nine heavens, not to mention the clouds and rain, and the blessing of the people, just for that leisure, and you have to desperately take it, right?"
In business, we are talking about interests. Chen Jieqi persecuted repeatedly, and Zhao Yanheng also asked calmly, "Do you think you can do something for my road to becoming an emperor?"
"Silver!" Chen Jieqi blinked ambiguously and said: "I heard Ah Yue say that the road to the heir is paved with silver, King Jing's mansion has a lot of silver, the construction of the Yellow River intercepted a sum of silver, the sale of the country's prison gathered a sum of silver, King Jing's fief is close to the coast, and it is a big fortune to dry salt privately, and there is something unclear that is secretly mixed." When the silver of Xiangwangfu was compared with Jingwangfu, it suffered a big loss. Although I don't have any silver for nothing, I have the goods. Jadeite, spices, ivory, rhino horns, all kinds of furs, everything that is rare is valuable, and everything that is worth a little money can only be bought and sold and owned by large families......"
Speaking of this, Chen Jieqi made a humble gesture and said: "To be honest, I have a group of people under my command to eat with me, just ask them to drink the broth, and the rest will go to the Xiangwang Mansion!"